abducent

Questions about abducent

What is another word for abducent?

It depends which abducent you mean. In the sense “a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye”, the synonyms are abducent nerve, abducens, abducens nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve. Across all 2 senses there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of abducent?

The recorded antonym is adducent. Opposites are sense-specific too: this page shows which meaning each one is the opposite of, because a word rarely has a single opposite that holds for all of its senses.

Why are the synonyms for abducent split into groups?

Because abducent carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for abducent come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of abducent

• Full entry for abducentAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for abducentWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.